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Special readers’ day will celebrate Darjeeling No. 19B at Statfold Barn

A SPECIAL day for readers of Heritage Railway and the other railway titles published by its parent company Mortons Media is to be held at the Statfold Barn Railway, nearTamworth, on October 7.

The star of the show will be Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Sharp Steward 0-4-0WT No. 19B, which, as reported in issue 308, was bought at an auction of the late Chiltern railway founder Adrian Shooter’s Beeches Light Railway on June 21.

The newly-formed Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust was also successful in

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